This isn't obscure, but I'm putting it here anyway. That moment when the defense has bit on play action and Drew is all alone, scans downfield and just has that body language where even though I can't see the receiver, I know it's going to be special. I get a legitimate chill right then, before he even throws. You know by his stance and confidence what's about to happen and the pleasure centers of the brain immediately open up and shock my system.

Rookie

I like it when I am out on a bike tour in some far flung country and I have busted my arse peddling up mountains all day. Peddling into headwinds and across flats. Peddling and peddling as though there is nothing else in the world to be done. I feel the strain to lift my cold beer after setting up my tent for the night. I strain against my own abilities, limitations, and perhaps my own mortality, and realize that I have nothing left. I'm spent, done, kaputz. And then I look up and stare out off of a cliff onto a view that wasn't meant for mere mortals to see and think "damn, it was worth it, it was all worth it"

I like it when i catch the knowing and interested glances of rapt students as I cover a topic that I think is important, but difficult, and that I included in the syllabus even though I thought that maybe it was a little beyond the classes' ability level. They are learning, their world is getting a little bigger, doors are opening, and their potential is getting a little closer to being fulfilled.